Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism tobe false.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All seemingly profound thinking which passes for realism, because it conveniently does away with all troublesome principles, has agreat attraction for the… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism,… — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a paradise… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet? — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Gorecki, you know, there's a kind of personal thing there for me. I had, you know, kind of become obsessed with that… — Mahan Esfahani Copy Share Image
“Some people can’t be in your life because they don’t have the power to help you improve it. That doesn’t mean you… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I always considered Ray Harryhausen's work so fine that it was way out of my league: in terms of realism and naturalism,… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
That reality is 'independent' means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible… — William James Copy Share Image
There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
It's the little added bonus of realism that makes the difference between an adequately done stunt and a really convincing one. — Hal Needham Copy Share Image
Girls only cheat when they feel unloved, guys cheat when they have the opportunity. — Kiana J Wilson Copy Share Image
“Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Never Judge Someone By Whom The Person Is. Remember, Every Saint Has A Past, Every Sinner Has a Future... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism.… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
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